Two more trafficked Indonesian migrant workers die in Cambodian scam centres


Alleged victims of scam centres boarding a boat to cross the river on the Myanmar-Thai border to be met by Thai soldiers as they are repatriated from Kyauk Khet in Myanmar's Myawaddy township on Feb. 12, 2025. - AFP This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title "". Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2025/04/23/two-more-trafficked-migrant-workers-die-in-cambodian-scam-centers.html. Download The Jakarta Post app for easier and faster news access: Android: http://bit.ly/tjp-android iOS: http://bit.ly/tjp-ios

JAKARTA: Two more Indonesian migrant workers, coerced into working in online scam centres in Cambodia, have died, amid an alarming surge in reports of Indonesians being lured and trapped into human trafficking schemes abroad.

The family of Rizal Sampurna, a 30-year-old migrant worker from Banyuwangi, East Java, received confirmation on Sunday (April 20) from both the Foreign Ministry and the Migrant Workers Protection Ministry that he had died.

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